College tuition, diversity, and pay

Zahra Khoshmanesh, Vahid Aziziz, Saba Moeinizadeh

4/25/2020

College tuition, diversity, and pay

Diversity dataset

diversity_school %>% glimpse()
## Rows: 50,655
## Columns: 5
## $ name             <chr> "University of Phoenix-Arizona", "University of Phoe…
## $ total_enrollment <dbl> 195059, 195059, 195059, 195059, 195059, 195059, 1950…
## $ state            <chr> "Arizona", "Arizona", "Arizona", "Arizona", "Arizona…
## $ category         <chr> "Women", "American Indian / Alaska Native", "Asian",…
## $ enrollment       <dbl> 134722, 876, 1959, 31455, 13984, 1019, 58209, 19039,…

Finding the most diverse campus per each diversity categories

## # A tibble: 11 x 6
##    category  university_name  state enrollment_rate total_enroll category_enroll
##    <chr>     <chr>            <chr>           <dbl>        <dbl>           <dbl>
##  1 American… Haskell Indian … Kans…           100            808             808
##  2 Asian     Grace Mission U… Cali…            95.5           88              84
##  3 Black     Lane College     Tenn…           100           1262            1262
##  4 Hispanic  Professional Ha… Flor…           100             37              37
##  5 Native H… Argosy Universi… Hawa…            49.7          933             464
##  6 Non-Resi… Knowledge Syste… Illi…            97.9          193             189
##  7 Total Mi… Lane College     Tenn…           100           1262            1262
##  8 Two Or M… University of H… Hawa…            40.1         2661            1068
##  9 Unknown   Le Cordon Bleu … Cali…            90.3          442             399
## 10 White     Rabbinical Semi… New …           100            500             500
## 11 Women     Spelman College  Geor…           100           2135            2135

Finding the most diverse campus per each diversity categories

Diversity map of the US for each diversity Group

Women enrollment rate across the US

Relationship between enrollment rate and in state tuition per each diversity group

Relationship between enrollment rate and out of state tuition per each diversity group

Tition cost dataset

tuition_cost %>% glimpse()
## Rows: 2,973
## Columns: 10
## $ name                 <chr> "Aaniiih Nakoda College", "Abilene Christian Uni…
## $ state                <chr> "Montana", "Texas", "Georgia", "Minnesota", "Cal…
## $ state_code           <chr> "MT", "TX", "GA", "MN", "CA", "CO", "NY", "NY", …
## $ type                 <chr> "Public", "Private", "Public", "For Profit", "Fo…
## $ degree_length        <chr> "2 Year", "4 Year", "2 Year", "2 Year", "4 Year"…
## $ room_and_board       <dbl> NA, 10350, 8474, NA, 16648, 8782, 16030, 11660, …
## $ in_state_tuition     <dbl> 2380, 34850, 4128, 17661, 27810, 9440, 38660, 53…
## $ in_state_total       <dbl> 2380, 45200, 12602, 17661, 44458, 18222, 54690, …
## $ out_of_state_tuition <dbl> 2380, 34850, 12550, 17661, 27810, 20456, 38660, …
## $ out_of_state_total   <dbl> 2380, 45200, 21024, 17661, 44458, 29238, 54690, …

Different types of colleges in US

How many collages are there in each state?

Comparing different states in terms of in state tuition

Comparing different states in terms of out of state tuition

Comparing in/out of state tuition (1/2)

Comparing in/out of state tuition (2/2)

In state tuition; different type of colleges; What is the relationship?

Out of state tuition; different type of colleges; What is the relationship?

Most expensive collages with out of state tuition

The chepeast Collleges in terms of out of state tuition

Most expensive collages with in state tuition

The cheapest collages in terms of in state tuition

The historical tuition dataset

270 observations and 4 variables

type year tuition_type tuition_cost
All Institutions 1985-86 All Constant 10893
All Institutions 1985-86 4 Year Constant 12274
All Institutions 1985-86 2 Year Constant 7508
All Institutions 1985-86 All Current 4885
All Institutions 1985-86 4 Year Current 5504
All Institutions 1985-86 2 Year Current 3367

The historical tuition dataset

We observe that the data is available consistantly from 2000 till 2017.

##  [1] "1985-86" "1995-96" "2000-01" "2001-02" "2002-03" "2003-04" "2004-05"
##  [8] "2005-06" "2006-07" "2007-08" "2008-09" "2009-10" "2010-11" "2011-12"
## [15] "2012-13" "2013-14" "2014-15" "2015-16" "2016-17"

For convinience, we will consider the end of year.

##  [1] 1986 1996 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
## [16] 2014 2015 2016 2017

Average tuition cost over time

Tuition comparison between 2 year and 4 year programs

Salary potential dataset

935 observations and 5 variables including:

Which states have the highest/least early career pay?

Top 5 states

state_name average_mid_career_pay
California 123976
New-York 122328
Massachusetts 115712
Pennsylvania 110884
Texas 103476
state_name average_early_career_pay
California 67232
New-York 66688
Massachusetts 63100
Pennsylvania 60644
Texas 57468

Which states have the highest/least mid career pay?

Let’s take a closer look at Iowa

rank name state_name early_career_pay mid_career_pay stem_percent
1 Iowa State University Iowa 56100 101300 31
2 Drake University Iowa 52800 99900 7
3 University of Iowa Iowa 54100 99400 16
4 Grinnell College Iowa 53400 96500 41
5 Allen College Iowa 51600 91300 0
6 Cornell College Iowa 49600 90600 22
7 Loras College Iowa 48000 90100 14
8 Dordt College Iowa 51000 89600 17
9 Central College Iowa 49000 88800 36
10 Graceland University-Lamoni Iowa 48300 88700 5
11 Simpson College Iowa 49900 88600 17
12 Wartburg College Iowa 49300 88000 34
13 Coe College Iowa 47200 86900 24
14 Luther College Iowa 48200 85900 21
15 University of Northern Iowa Iowa 47100 85300 8
16 Maharishi University of Management Iowa 46800 85200 65
17 Saint Ambrose University Iowa 46900 84400 8
18 Northwestern College Iowa 44800 82400 11
19 Morningside College Iowa 44900 82100 6
20 Clarke University Iowa 44900 80200 6
21 University of Dubuque Iowa 44200 79700 7
22 Mount Mercy University Iowa 47200 79000 4
23 William Penn University Iowa 43900 78300 7
24 Upper Iowa University Iowa 44200 78000 3
25 Iowa Wesleyan University Iowa 42600 77200 8

Stem percent